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“Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” - Benito Mussolini
by christoph 3mo ago
“Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”
- Benito Mussolini
- microgpt 3mo agoNah. Fascism only tolerates one power, that being itself. It can emerge from either the state or corporate side, and necessarily subsumes or destroys the other, just as it subsumes or destroys unions, families, friend networks, communications, and anything else that can establish power. That doesn't mean the merger of two of them is the defining feature.
- FireBeyond 3mo agoCorporations generally tend to only tolerate the state to the extent that guns or courts mandate that they must. How many billions of corporate dollars have gone to fund campaigns to deregulate, to skirt authority, to do whatever is necessary to make sure profits go up?
- microgpt 3mo agoThat's also the degree to which dogs tolerate unions - doesn't really mean anything
- treis 3mo agoThat’s true of every system of government
- microgpt 3mo agoNo. Power can be delegated. I'd say capitalism puts ultimate power on the government who delegates power to holders of capital. (If that stops, it's not capitalism any more)
- LNSY 3mo ago[dead]
- microgpt 3mo agoWas he a smart man or was he a fascist?
- kamma4434 3mo agoFascism was corporative, but in Italian the word has a very different meaning compared to the English one.
- abalashov 3mo agoThis is an underrated comment. "Corporate" power did not mean, in 1920s-30s Italy, what Americans think it means.